16 Apr
2010
16 Apr
'10
10:39 a.m.
. . . and WHEN the CD-R goes blank,
they will replace it with a new blank CD-R.
Any such warranties are for the media, not for your data.
Which makes them totally useless, of course. Oddly, I find the data
recorded on a disk to be much more valuable than the disk itself.
The ohter trick that's pulled is that the small print says 'provided the
furomat is still in current use' or something like that. And the
manufactuerers hope that <n> years in the future, it won't be.
-tony